The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion

Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!

Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.

ExtraMedicated,

I just started playing Exanima again after they released a big update. This game can take a little while to get used to, but it’s totally worth it. The physics-based movement is unique and the combat is fun. The enemies acts more sentient than than those in other games, and the early-game ones sometimes choose not to attack if you don’t act threatening toward them.

Read about the the features though. There’s a reason that this game has my second longest total playing time on Steam.

H_Interlinked,

Monster Hunter: Rise. My wife and I got two copies together. I’ve been a long time fan of MH since Tri on the wii. I played MH4U on the 2DS, and MHGU on the Switch. She first joined me in MH:World + Iceborne. Good game. It was fun enough she didn’t cringe at the thought of playing MHR together.

So far I’m in LOVE with this game. This is very obviously from the old pre-World team. The in-game community feels alive again with old lobby systems brought back with new features. It’s what I was secretly hoping for out of “Next Gen MonHun” when World was announced as that.

Miclux,

FTL

ieightpi,

Classic

DelvianSeek,

After finishing a playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3, I’m now on Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Fun, but nowhere near as good as the original Tiny Tina DLC for BL2. Still, I’m 26 hours in and I’ll definitely finish it. After that… maybe I’ll go back and do a different run of BG3. I’m looking forward to getting back to CP2077 and picking up Phantom Liberty, but I’m going to wait for that to be on some sort of sale.

Cold_Brew_Enema,

Lies of P. Best soulslike game that isn’t a fromsoftware game.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Rogue Tower - Steam description: Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

I've enjoyed unlocking all the cards and completing the 1-path (simpler) mode. Now I'm working on 2/3/4 path modes and finding them much more difficult. Uncovering levels of strategy I didn't know existed in this game after simpler mode. Surprisingly complex for a tower defense and very interesting.

Also, CS2. Still fun to shoot people in the head.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not sure how I feel about the revamped buy system in CS2, but I guess it does make it easier to add more alternate guns.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

I am also uncertain but it does seem better than the old 2 layer/level system. I don't like limiting the choices but I do tend to only use a few weapons.

Aviandelight,
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

Been replaying Talos Principle in anticipation of the sequel coming out next month. Been having a blast with the exception of a few puzzles with mines (if you’ve played it you know). I don’t know if I’m going to 100% it again because I fucking hate those levels.

themusicman,

I played it through recently for the same reason.

There are some tricks to deal with mines - e.g. the “double jammer” dance will almost entirely de-risk a lot of the craziest levels.

It’s the star puzzles I couldn’t be bothered with…

Aviandelight,
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

Yeah that where I gave up this time too.

DMerald,

There’s a indie sandbox fantasy game called The Bloodline that just came out and I’ve been having lots of fun messing around with that.

jerome,
@jerome@lemmy.world avatar

Project Zomboid.

Miclux,

What killed you?!

Someone poured bleach in the water bottle.

AAA, (edited )

I finally got around installing OpenMW and started playing.

Feels good to relive my first “serious” RPG experience.

isles,

I had completely forgotten OpenMW existed and now the rest of my year is spoken for.

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug,

Note, there are some forks of OpenMW. One fore android, one adds multiplayer, one makes it VR.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I need to get that on my phone now that I have a Backbone.

Infinitus, (edited )

Age of empires 2. Bloody hell, this 22 year old game is getting another dlc. It’s gona be a pain in the ass for the devs but the game is as balanced as ever and we’ll enjoy it till the servers go down.

guyrocket, (edited )
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

I went on a binge with that game recently. It is amazingly deep, I never got near all the possible ways to play. I was mostly enjoying getting my ass kicked by the computer in multiplayer.

Fun game. I'll probably get back to it eventually. Seems like it will be around forever.

ETA: There's a pretty large AOE2 community on Reddit (still? IDK?) and frequent vids on YT. I remember some very detailed analysis vids on YT when updates came out. And competitive is still a thing too.

astropenguin5,

Currently have been playing a fair amout Stormworks: Build and Rescue and the new Space dlc, unfortunately there are a fair amount of bugs but it’s still quite fun.

The other game I am playing a lot of is Deep Rock Galactic

CarlsIII,

Been enjoying cyberpunk but I keep going back to Xcom: Enemy Unkown

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

I find XCOM difficult to go back to after playing XCOM 2, especially with the huge amount of easily installed XCOM 2 mods on the steam page.

Renacles,

I got the Outriders dlc on sale, had forgotten how fun the game is.

EnlightenMe,
@EnlightenMe@lemmy.world avatar

I got super into Rimworld this last month and had a blast. I am also closing out my first playthrough of BG3, doing it with a friend so it’s taking a bit longer. Picked up the new Cyberpunk DLC but haven’t really had a chance to dig into it yet.

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